A Review of Modern Developments in Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Reactive Flows

Abstract

An overview is presented of recent developments and contributions in large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent reactive flows. The foundation of some of the recently proposed subgrid scale (SGS) closures for such simulations is presented, along with a discussion of their capabilities and limitations. The scope of the review is limited to physical modeling. In doing so, only issues pertaining to additional complexities caused by chemical reactions are discussed. That is, the challenges associated with "general" LES of non-reactive flows are not considered, even though all of these diallenges are indeed present (and in most cases are a lot more complex) in reactive flows. It is recognized that numerical algorithms and computational procedures play a significant role in (any) LES. However, this review does not deal with these issues except for cases wherein the actual numerical-computational methodology is directly coupled with the procedure by which LES is conducted. The SGS closure based on the recently developed "filtered density function" (FDF) method is described in a greater detail. This is due to more familiarity of this reviewer with this closure; it does not imply that other closures are less effective.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADP013626

Entities

People

  • Peyman Givi

Organizations

  • University at Buffalo

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Boundary Layer
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Fokker Planck Equations
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Systems Analysis and Design